The High Net Wealth Segment
There are some trends emerging in the High Net Wealth Individual segment to watch for in the context of Estate planning advice. ….
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Memorial Jewellery – From Ashes to Diamonds?
After cremation, most people think of ashes being “sprinkled”, held in an urn or interred. Many companies are advertising different options in the form of “Memorial Jewellery”, and one has developed a method of creating diamonds that are purportedly “molecularly identical to naturally occurring diamonds” from cremated remains…..
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Estate Administration, Estate Planning, Funeral Planning, Interest, WillsEstate Planning on the Big Screen
When his kids talk to him about moving to a ‘nice place for people like you’, he’s practically shaking with anger – depending on your age, you may be shaking too.
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Estate Planning, Family ConflictSpecificity Matters: Defining “Children” and “Issue” for Estate Planning Purposes
In a previous blog, I wrote about the need for specificity when drafting provisions that include a “spouse” of a particular person as a potential beneficiary of an estate or trust.
Attention is also needed to ensure that when a Will refers to terms such as “children” or “issue”, the persons included within these classes are those that the testator intends to benefit. This is particularly true in the current age, where there are an increasing number of different types of relationships and manners of having children…..
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Estate PlanningInterrelation of Family Law and Estate Planning
With many couples, one or both spouses have had previous marriages or common law relationships. For many reasons, these couples’ estate planning instructions are not usually the traditional “all to my spouse with a gift over to my issue”, and clients should understand how their estat planning decisions may be impacted by family law…..
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Capacity Law, Estate Planning, Family Conflict, Power of Attorney, Property, Spouse, Wills